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THE REGISTER. GUARD. EUGENE, OREGOH
Sunday, March .
Hilton Film
More Days
considered one of ft.
memorable pictures o! ft, !"
"Random Harvest" eorttaT?
P'ay packed crowds at ft. u
Donald. t-
Zh'fi!m.with Greer Gan
a wounan will h. "
through Tuesday on
attraction whicheaturSf
reel Tpi.hni,i " wo.
"The a&fi.
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Pen of James Hilton, who 15
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and "Lost Horizon." it MkT
shell-shocked soldier whT'
back from World Wsr i JS
knowinewhoh.n,.. l.1"
then wis restored toTa
memory. 0B
n.TJ?e,. supportin et In tu.
M-G-M production featurew
Peters Philip Dorn, Uta H
nor, and Henry Traven.
'Honeymoon'
Stars Grant
And Rogers
Bringing together for the first
time two top stars of the screen,
Ginger Rogers and Cary Grant,
RKO Radio offers a stirring
glimpse of love against a world at
war In Leo McCarey'a "Once Upon
a Honeymoon."
The film is now at the Heilig
and will be moved to the May
flower starting Thursday.
Using as his theme the light
hearted, gay type of romantic
cnrrin for which he Is famous.
McCarey has invested his picture
with gripping dramatic meaning
by backgrounding It against Nazi
world-ambitions in Europe and the
successive sweeps into Austria and
Poland and France.
r.nt nlavs the Dart of an Am
erican newspaper correspondent
anH hroadcaster. watching inter'
estedly as the situation comes to a
crisis. Miss Rogers is cast as an
American dancer in Europe who
succumbs to the glamor of a suave
German baron and marries him,
just as Austria falls to Miuer.
Interested in the Baroness per
sonally and in the Baron because
things begin to happen whenever
he goes to a new country, me newn
naoerman follows the two around,
lands in Warsaw with them just
at the Polish blitz begins, and fin
ally convinces the Baroness that
her husband is a clever Nazi agent
and not the type of man she snouia
stay married to.
Joan Co-Stan
With Wayne
The queen of sophisitieated
2l8mour, Joan Crawford, returns
to the screen after an absence of
several months in a new adventure
romance, "Reunion in France,"
which will open Thursday at the
McDonald for a three-day run.
Miss Crawford has two co-stars
laying opposite her, John Wayne,
who plays an RAF aviator shot
down over France, and Philip
Dorn, who portrays a powerful
French official who collaborates
with the Nazis after the fall of
France.
Time of the drama is just after
Dunkirk, when Parisians either
fled or stayed to take what the
Germans had to offer. The excite
ment features Reginald Owen, Al
bert Basserman, John Carradine,
Ann Ayars, and J. Edward Brom
berg as members of the support
ing cast.
"Reunion In France" will be co-
teatured with "Over My Dead
Body," mystery comedy featuring
Milton Berle and Mary Beth
Hughes.
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S latest romantic suspense drama Is due Sunday, March 28, at the Heilig
theater Stars of the Universal picture, leu to rignt, are inicuonuu iarcj, hii
and Joseph Cotten. The latter two are co-starred in the Jack H. Skirball production.
RED-HEADED Greer Garson
plays opposite Ronald Colman in
"Random Harvest," continuing
through Wednesday at the Mc
Donald.
Studio Notes
HOLLYWOOD, March 21.
( HPS) Republic's serial queen,
Xay Aldridge, has been set for a
leading role in the new Vinton
Preedley play on Broadway,
Dancing in the Streets." Kay will
lay a Washington secretary. Mary
Martin is the star.
Veronica Lake and Franchot
Cone have been cast to co-star for
he first time together-In Para
nount's plcturlzation of Somerset
Maugham's best-selling novel,
"The Hour Before Dawn." The
itory, set in England during the
present war, deals with espionage
nd counter-espionage against the
Termans.
Republic has borrowed Mabel
'aige from Paramount to play
he title role in "Prodigal's Mo-
her," a Ben Ames Williams orig
inal.
Columbia has borrowed George
ianders from Twentieth Century-
."ox for the lead in "Appointment
n Berlin, story of British coun
or-espionage before the present
var.
Vera Vague. Bob Hope's alr
ine stooge, will make a scries of
lort comedies for Columbia.
Charles LauRhton, In a court
oom scene of "This Lane Is
line," has a speech which runs
00 feet of continuous sound
ack.
Margie Stewart, starlet appear
ig in "Bombardier," has been
otcd by men training for Arctic
luty as "sirl we want to meet
.hen we emerge from the frozen
orth."
John Garfield, who used to
quawk when he had to kiss his
'fading ladies, kisses three in
"The Fallen Sparrow": Maureen
I'Hara. Martha O'Driseoll, Pa
nda Morlson.
"Tonight We Raid Calais," Is
announced by 20th Century-Fox
.is the releane title for the Com
mando picture formerly called
"Secret Mission." Annabella and
John Sutton have the starring
roles.
im i- nnirjiiif in '
'Shadow' Due
On March 28
If a finished movie turns out
to be 75 per cent as good as he
originally dreamed it would be,
then a director has a box-office
success.
That's the Alfred Hitchcock
philosophy on picture-making,
and it cannot be denied that he
has made many successful pic
tures. Among them have been
"The Thirty-Nine Steps," "The
Lady Vanishes," "Rebecca,"
"Foreign Correspondent," "Mr.
and Mrs. Smith," "Suspicion"
and "Saboteur."
He has recently completed
what his admirers claim is the
best film of his career. It is
"Shadow of a Doubt," coming
March 28 to the Heilig theater.
For his cast he chose such thor
ough stage players as Teresa
Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdon
ald Carey, Patricia Collinge,
Henry, Travers, Wallace Ford
and others.
MARINES flEhtine Japs are
Robert Preston and Brian Donlevy
in "Wake Island," set for Tnurs
day at the Rex theater.
Theater Programs
HEILIG
Sunday through Wednesday
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Thursday through Saturday
The Traitor Within
Fighting Buckaroo
Mcdonald
Sunday through Wednesday
Random Harvest
Thursday through Saturday
Reunion in France
Over My Dead Body
IS!
VLT Comedy
Will Begin
On Thursday
First production of the new year
at the Very Little Theatre, which
made a practice of adding hits to
its record in 1942, will be Turner
Bullock's "Cuckoo's Nest," which
opens Thursday night at 8:15 for a
three-night run.
The cast features a number of
longtime favorites of Eugene audi
ences, all under direction or, Mrs.
Ken Griffith.
Reservations for the show are
renorted aoing rapidly at the Will
amette Street market (telephone
551-J), where tickets may be re
served betwn 9 a. m. and midnight
every day, including Sunday.
Plot of the comedy is laid in a
small college town, where affairs
of faculty and their wives rule the
roost or pretend to. Rejected
from this social circle because she
is rather dim-witted, Adelaide
Willifer (Florence Shumaker),
wife of an English professor (Rob
ert D. Horn), makes a bid for rec
ognition bv buying the unpub
lished novel of a penniless novelist
(Glenn Hasselrooth). When the
publishers receive Dr. Willifer's
"Introduction to English Litera
ture," they forget all about it, con
centrate on the novel submitted
bv Adelaide.
. Queen of the clubwomen (Gerda
Brown) rallies to her acclaim, but
the college president (Ethan New
man) and another professor (Rob
ert W. Earl) register protests,
Then a Dublicitv man (Ken Grif
fith) appears, convinces them they
should make Adelaide a "Lady of
Letters" all for a book she hasn't
even readl
Involved in the hilarity are Va
letta Arthurs as the professor's
daughter, Sylvia Cuthbert as the
Swedish maid, Genevieve Tugman
as Adelaide's mother, Dee Knollin
as the author's sponsor, Joyce Cof
fee as a reporter.
The Very Little Theatre is lo
cated at entrance to the county
fairgrounds, Thirteenth avenue
west at Monroe.
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JOAN CRAWFORD and Philip Dorn are united In "Reunion In
France," romantl adventure film from M-G-M which opens Thursday
at the McDonald. John Wayne plays an SAF flyer.
JOAN FONTAINE stars with
Tyrone Power In "This Above
All," State feature based on Eric
Knight's best seller about con'
temporary England.
'Commandos' Held Over
"Commandos Strike at Dawn,"
which is being acclaimed enthu
siastically by Eugene moviegoers,
will play through Wednesday at
the Mayflower theater. A story ol
the struggles of Norwegians
against Nazi aggression, the film
stars Paul Muni, supported by
Anna Lee, Sir Cedric Hardwicke,
Richard Derr. It marks return to
the screen of Lillian Gish, silent
day star.
Cole Porter wrote the mask .
methtog to ShouttoS1
Joan Leslie Is Fred Astalre's
co-star In "The Sky's the Limit"
REX
Sunday and Monday
In Name Only
Parachute Battalion
Tuesday and Wednesday
The Grapes of Wrath
The Ghost Breakers
Thursday through Saturday
Wake Island
The Devil with Hitler
'This Above All'
Plays at State
Hailed by the critics as one of
the great novels of our generation,
and America's Number One Best-
Seller for many months, Eric
Knight's "This Above All," has at
last been brought to the screen
by 20th Century-Fox, and arrives
at the State theater today for aj
four-day run. I
Co-starring Tyrone Power and j
Joan Fontaine, the turn was pro
duced by Darryl F. Zanuck, Acad-'
emy award producer, under the di- :
rectorial aegis of Anatole Litvak.
The screenplay was fashioned by
R. C. Sherriff, famed author of
"Journey's End."
Telling the story of two young
lovers caught in the turmoil of war
in Britain, "This Above All" has
been termed "the first great love
story of our generation." It takes
the two principal characters
through a great emotional crisis,
and brings them through to a deci
sion which is fundamentally vital
for the continuance of their hap
piness together.
NOW TILL TUESDAY!
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CAROLE
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CARY
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"INNAME
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Nancy Kelly Harry Carey
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"Army Engineers"
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MAYFLOWER
Sunday through Wednesday
Commandos Strike at Dawn
Thursday through Saturday
Once Upon a Honeymoon
STATE
Sunday through Wednesday
This Above All
Thursday through Sulurday
A Yank in Libya
They Raid by NiRht
Fifteen-year-old Diana Lynn,
who made a hit in "The Major
and the Minor" and in Preston
Sturges' latest, "Miracle of Mor
gan's Creek," is to be starred by
Paramount.
VERY LITTLE THEATRE
Thursday through Saturday
Cuckoo's Nest
'Moon and Sixpence'
Drama of South Seas
W. Somerset Maugham's best
seller of life In the South Seas,
'The Moon and Sixpence," will
open in Eugene on Sunday,
March 28, at the McDonald
theater.
George Sanders l starred In
the film suggested by the life of
Paul Gauguin, French artist. In
the supporting cast arc Herbert
Marshall, Doris Dudley, and the
Vancouver beauty, Elena Vcr-dugo.
'Buckaroo' Next
On Heilig Bill
Flying hoofs will thunder across
the Heilig theater screen on Friday
when Charles Starrett routs the
rustlers in Columbia's "The Fight
ing Buckaroo."
In addition to starrett, wno por
trays an ex-Texus RanRer, the cast
also includes laughable, lovable
Arthur "Arkansas" Hunnicutt, vi
vacious Kay Harris and Ernest
Tubb who is accompanied in his
western ballads by Johnny Lu
ther's Ranch Boys.
Directed by William Berkc, the
new western promises thrills
galore as Starrett takes up the
trail of a band of cattle rustlers.
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